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Hi,
We looked into asking students to donate their fines for charity a couple of years ago (the Students Union were really keen that we did this to coincide with RAG week). Unfortunately our Finance department were
not keen and eventually confirmed that this would breach financial regulations, so it’s worth checking with your Finance Team before getting too far into the planning.
Tracey
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Sent: 13 June 2014 09:35
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Subject: Re: Donating library fines to charity
A few years ago I worked at a university library in Australia. At the end of the academic year, coinciding with Christmas, we decided to allow students to pay off their fines
by donating food/clothing/toiletries which we then passed on to homeless charities. We weren’t too prescriptive about quantity relative to size of fine but someone trying to pay off a large fine with (say) just a bar of soap would be encouraged to contribute
more.
It went down very well with students, regardless of faith background, and people were very generous. It helped create a really nice atmosphere of goodwill.
(An Australian colleague here tells me they did a similar thing at her old university and it went down well there, too.)
Best wishes
Ros
Ros Smith
Information Skills Adviser (Perry Library)
Library and Learning Resources
103 Borough Road, London, SE1 0AA
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Sent: 12 June 2014 17:46
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Subject: Donating library fines to charity
With apologies for cross postings…
Hello all
We are currently considering following in some other libraries footsteps by starting a once a year exercise of donating a portion of our income from overdue fines to charity as a publicity exercise to get across to students why we charge
fines and how they can avoid them. If you are a HE or FE library and have undertaken a similar exercise we’d be interested to hear from you on how you managed the practicalities and how you feel it went, especially…
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What charity did you choose?
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Did you choose to donate a percentage, a fixed amount, or a day / weeks worth?
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If you chose a day / week to donate fines, what dates did you select and why?
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Did you advertise the donation in advance or afterwards?
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What was the student reaction?
Many thanks for your help,
Natalie
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Natalie Guest
Document Delivery Co-ordinator, Liaison Librarian (Systems
Engineering and Mathematics & Statistics) & Multimedia manager
University of Reading Library, Whiteknights,
PO Box 223, Reading RG6 6AE
0118 378 8786
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